Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick
Joe Wilkins
created: Dec. 3, 2025, 9:29 p.m. | updated: Dec. 13, 2025, 4:20 p.m.
Elon Musk’s pet AI chatbot, Grok, is a world-beater when it comes to generating vile racist remarks on an enormous scale.
Sadly, all that digital hate speech comes at a high price: the health of those unfortunate souls who live next to the data center that makes Grok possible.
Speaking to The Times, 81-year-old Boxtown resident Willie Joe Stafford blamed the mucus he regularly hacks up is the result of Colossus’ pollution.
“We have to put our lungs up in exchange for profit,” 66-year-old Boxtown resident Batsell Booker told The Times.
Back in October, it was reported that Musk was close to finishing another data center, “Colossus 2,” located near the first one.
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